Word: zukor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most U.S. newspapers are similarly prepared, though the obituary inventories vary widely, from the Boston Globe's ten entries to the New York Times's 2,000 (Ferhat Abbas to Adolph Zukor), some of them set in type. Times Metropolitan Editor Abe Rosenthai, whose responsibilities include custody of the obituary files, assigns their preparation to appropriate members of the paper's editorial staff. When President Kennedy died in Dallas, White House Correspondent Tom Wicker had on his desk, undischarged, the duty of updating the Kennedy obituary. As a new Times hand in 1946, Rosenthal himself contributed...
...everything else is dull," muses Paramount Pictures Executive George Weltner. The habit has proved profitable for him: last week, at 62, he was promoted from executive v.p. to president. In something of a youth movement, he replaces Barney Balaban, who at 76 becomes chairman; Paramount's founder, Adolph Zukor, 91, was named chairman emeritus. Aging Paramount lost $2,800,000 in 1962 when several films were boxoffice flops. Last year it was back in the black, and first-quarter '64 earnings ($1,041,000) were almost twice as high as in the same period last year. Weltner expects...
...maverick of the family." His grades were so bad that he dropped out of school at 14 to work as a delivery boy for Paramount, trotting around from theater to theater with movie reels. Several years ago at a New York dinner, Harkins met Film Maker Adolph Zukor, who said, "General, you're a handsome man. We could have used you in the movies." Replied Harkins, "Hell, I worked for Paramount years ago, but no one made me an offer...